LAV-rawss is the Munster pronunciation and seldom heard. Generally this name would be pronounced as LOW (rhyming with bough)-rass, for example in the case of Labhrás Ó Murchú, a senator from Tipperary. [noted -ed]

-- Anonymous User 3/30/2012

Seriously! Why aren't these celtic Irish names spelled how they are pronounced?(different language and culture, I know, so I'm being slightly rhetorical here) If you wish to avoid any stress or headaches for your child, I highly suggest not giving them a name that is spelled nothing like how its pronounced.It's nothing more than a huge headache- especially for the owner of the name. He or she will be correcting people all their life.